Group of Death (Group B) Who you got?

Quick question before the games today: Who you got in the group of death? Denmark, Germany, Netherlands or Portugal . . . It would be hard to bet against the Germans, but the Dutch showed a lot of class in the World Cup two years ago!

it was a poke at FIFA... you two are reading into it way too much. I think if you're born in Poland you should play for the Polish national team. That is all. Also, I like my pick a lot better after the result this afternoon.

Klose was what, six years old when his family emigrated? Klose chose to play for Germany because he considers himself German; it sure as hell didn't improve his chances of landing a spot on a national team.

Feeding anti-immigrant hysteria in Germany and trying to force soccer players to go back to countries they can hardly even remember living in does not seem to me to be such a great idea. Questions of citizenship and of whether immigrants can ever belong to their new country and society are no laughing matter in Europe. Or anywhere else for that matter.

will make it to the final. With Villa out and Torres playing like a shell of his former self, they don't have enough finishers on the pitch. Funny thing about Spain's top two clubs is that the best scorers on those clubs aren't Spanish.

Torres was starting to find his form for Chelsea near the end of the season. Confident in that Spain's midfield will tear holes through most of the Euro teams to get to the finals, but Germany has more than enough talent to counter the Spanish midfield, and need Gomez to actually finish.

Yeah, it is a litting concerning about Spain's lack of finishers, and I think all the Barca fans are wondering how differently this season would have went if Villa was healthy on the pitch (he gets SO overshadowed playing next to Messi, but he's a lethal finisher in his own right).

Fernando Llorente is a MONSTER of a forward (and he plays in a system that is nearly identical to Spain's system at Athletic Bilbao), and Negredo has been lighting it up for Sevilla this year. And Iniesta is still the best scoring midfielder in the world, Spain will have no problem scoring goals.